HAPPY WHITE DAY EVERYONE!
A/N: Normally this would not be updated for a couple more days, but inspiration hit and I had to write this chapter. I just couldn't get the twins giving Hunny that pink dress out of my mind and knew that before that, I had to write this chapter. LOL. For those of you that are wondering, it is from the Anime, episode 9 (A Challenge from Lobelia Girls' Academy!). I love that episode because I think it is hilarious to see all of the hosts minus Mori dressed in those ball gowns. Ok, as we saw Yasu is a complete wackadoo and he was possessive even before he met her. So you can imagine how bad it got afterwards, but like I said, even crazy needs a turn and I really felt like I needed to show things from his POV. Please vote for this story if you haven't already for best of Ouran 2012. Now, here is the chapter. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
Chapter 37 – Surprise
The next morning Haruhi slowly opened her eyes and felt something around her waist. She looked down and saw Hunny's arm holding onto her securely while she was holding onto a pink bunny. Chuckling to herself, she set Usa-Chan aside and tried to pry the arm off of her, but that was a task that was easier said than done. As she continued to try to escape, Haruhi thought about the night before.
Flashback to last night
Haruhi had every intention of sleeping alone, but the more time she spent in her room alone, the worse her fears seemed to antagonize her. Grabbing Usa-Chan, she ran next door and knocked on Hunny's door hoping against hope that she was not waking him up.
"Haru-Chan?" A voice called out to her from down the hall.
Spinning around, Haruhi clutched the pink bunny to chest and yelped trying her best to stifle a scream. She saw Hunny standing there looking at her with a concerned look in his eye and before she knew it, she rushed to him and her arms were around his waist. She knew he could feel her trembling and she was sure that it would increase his worry, but right now she didn't care. She just needed to know that he was there and that she was safe.
"What's wrong?" Hunny asked wrapping his arms around her, one arm around her waist and one around her shoulders with his hand on her head holding her to him as closely as he could. He could feel her body shaking and knew that she was not alright.
A small hysterical laugh escaped her before she said, "I don't know. I mean I know that I am safe here and that Yasu can't get to me, but the more I sat there in the dark, the more freaked out I got. I know that I was doing it to myself, but I couldn't stop it. So then I thought I would find you and was really hoping that I didn't wake you up." She was rambling and she knew it, and she couldn't have cared less, "But I can see that you weren't asleep, which is a good thing because I would have felt bad if I would have woken you up." She paused so that she could take a deep breath, but wasn't given the chance to continue at that particular moment.
"I was talking to my parents and was just now going to my room. Do you want to come in and lay down in my room for a little bit or do you want me to come to yours?" Hunny asked kissing the side of her head. He was not going to leave her alone right now even if that is what she wanted, but knowing that was not the case. She would not have sought him out if she wanted to be alone.
"Do you mind if I come in your room for a bit?" Haruhi asked softly. "If you would rather get some sleep though, I will understand."
Shaking his head, Hunny said, "If you will notice, I only asked which room: yours or mine." He released her from his embrace and grabbed her hand pulling her into his room before he shut the door. He smiled when he realized his favorite stuffed animal was in her arms, "Does she help you?"
Haruhi sat down on Hunny's bed and looked at the pink bunny she was holding onto as tightly as she could and nodded, "It feels like I am not alone when she is with me and she makes me think of you, making you feel somehow closer to me when you can't be there."
Sitting down next to her, he put his arm around her and pulled her close, "I'm glad. She was always a good companion to me, and if I can't be with you, I am glad she can be and that she makes you feel better." He was using his fingers to brush through her hair and kissed the top of her head.
"Do you regret allowing me back in your life now? I mean everything would be…" Haruhi started but was interrupted.
"Haruhi look at me," Hunny said in an almost stern voice and waited for her to comply, "It was never a matter of if I should or should not let you back into my life. It was a question of do I tell you how I feel or not? Do I try to woo you, or let you be just a friend as you have always been? Those were the questions. I already knew that if by some miracle I ever ran into you or even saw you from a distance, I would do anything to have you in my life once again in some form or fashion. I was about to ask Kyoya to find you for me, but that never happened because on that special day, we wound up at the same café and you slipped on the floor trying to say hi to me. I count that as one of the luckiest days of my life. All of this stuff with that lunatic will go away eventually; we just have to be patient. I don't care about that except for the need and urge to keep you safe. If I have to battle crazy people, dragons, monsters, the other hosts, or whatever, I will do so in order to have you in my life. Yasu is crazy enough to come after us regardless if we were in your life or not. You might think things would be simpler, but I think life would have been harder because each day I would have had to face it without you. I don't think you realize how special to me, actually all of us, you really were and are. I loved you then and I love you now."
"I love you too," Haruhi whispered so quietly she was sure it was not heard until she felt her lips being mashed by another set of lips. Instead of pushing Hunny away, she pulled him closer and deepened the kiss and found herself smiling on the inside. Finally she said it to someone who deserved it, and the feelings of unease that she felt with Tamaki and Yasu when she said those three words to them, were nonexistent when she spoke them to Hunny. She didn't feel uncomfortable or edgy afterwards, she felt complete peace. It was almost like her gut was telling her that she had been saying it to the wrong men all along, that she was with the wrong man, and the right man was waiting for her nearby.
Hunny pulled back from the kiss with a huge smile on his face. He was elated. There was no other word to describe the feeling he felt the moment he heard those words pass from Haruhi's lips to his ears for the first time. It was his dream come true and it felt even better than it ever did in his mind. He had cupped her cheeks after she had confessed and even now his hands remained on her face, his thumbs rubbing the soft skin under them, "Sorry Haruhi, I was just overcome when you said…"
"It's true. I love you," Haruhi declared stopping him mid-sentence.
"Well if you think, particularly after that confession, that I would rather have you out of my life than to deal with Yasu, I will take him on every day of the week in order to be with you."
Smiling, Haruhi leaned in to kiss Hunny and when she ended the kiss, she quietly said, "Thank you for everything: for being there for me, allowing me to stay with you, for comforting me, but especially for loving me. I know that I am a little late coming around, but I eventually got here."
Hunny started to chuckle and his laughter increased when he saw a very confused frown on Haruhi's face, "Sorry Haru-Chan, but it wouldn't be you if it didn't take you a while to realize your feelings. You were always so in tune with everyone around you and could read them like a book, but when it came to yourself and the way people felt about you, well you were always a little on the dense side."
Haruhi started to giggle because Hunny was right and there was no denying that fact since there was too much proof to support it, "I guess I do have problems with understanding myself and people's feelings towards me."
"You guess?" Hunny said chuckling and then gave her a small kiss, "I think it is an absolute certainty, but that is ok. You wouldn't be Haru-Chan without it."
End of flashback
Haruhi smiled. They had talked some more and then lay down at some point. She wasn't sure when they had fallen asleep, but knew after the emotional day she just experienced, it didn't take long. Now here she was trying to get up and Hunny was not letting go.
Changing tactics, Haruhi managed to turn over onto her back and then turned her head to face him. He looked so peaceful when he slept that she hated to wake him, but really there was no choice in the matter since her bladder was telling her to get up now. Lifting her hand, she brushed it over his face, eyes, and then into his hair. There was no change; the only reaction she got was for him to try to snuggle with her hand. Lowering her hand, she harrumphed. She knew that she could be mean and wake him up by lightly slapping his face or pulling his hair, but she wasn't mean and she did not want to encounter the second demon of the former host club. Brushing her fingers over his face again, she softly entreated him, "Mitsukuni. Hunny, it is time to wake up. Mitsukuni wake up." She watched as he started to scrunch his face and knew that he was on the verge of waking up. She used the last weapon in her arsenal and kissed him. When she felt him kissing back, she pulled back and looked at his now open yet sleepy eyes.
"Morning Haru-Chan," Hunny mumbled tiredly and tried to pull her closer as he closed his eyes once more.
"Mitsukuni, I need to get up," Hunny said trying to push him away a little.
Frowning, he cocked one eye open and looked at her, "Why?"
"Because I have to go to the bathroom," Haruhi groaned turning a slight shade of pink.
"Oh," he said as he released her from his hold and let her get up. He was giggling at her embarrassment thinking that the pink tint on her cheeks was very kawaii.
When she exited the bathroom, she looked at the bed and found it to be Hunny-less. She heard noises coming from the closet and assumed that he was in there. Moving closer to the door, she peered in and gasped. The room was huge, much bigger than her bedroom at home. "Do you really need all of this space for your clothes? Damn rich bastard," Haruhi mumbled as she took in the enormous closet.
Hunny looked around him and smirked. The closet wasn't even full, of course most of his clothes were at the apartment now, but he kept a lot of clothes here just in case they were needed. "Well, it is the closet that came with my room, so I guess I do," he said winking at her. He knew that she didn't mean any offense by it and he also knew that she was comparing it to the size of one of the rooms in her small apartment like she usually was want to do.
"Yah, Yah, whatever," Haruhi mock glared at him. The affect was ruined when she couldn't help but smile at his playful ways.
"Why don't you go get ready and then we will go to the dining room for breakfast. The twins won't be here until around noon and it is only 8:30 am."
"You know you could have gone back to sleep. I only woke you up so that I could extract myself from your arms."
"It's ok Haru-Chan. I figure if you want, after breakfast we can go out to the dojo and continue working on your karate."
"I would like that."
"Good, now you go and get dressed and then we will eat a light breakfast. After that we will get to work," Hunny offered her a smile and a small kiss before walking out of his closet.
"Ok, well then I will wait until after our training session to take a shower. Let me just get changed real quick."
"Sounds good Haru-Chan," Hunny said and watched her walk to the door and leave. It had felt like the best thing in the world to wake up again with her in his arms. It was definitely something he could get used to, if he wasn't already.
Their morning seemed to fly by and before either of them knew it, they were greeting Hikaru and Kaoru. Hunny and Haruhi both noticed the mischievous smile that both of the twins had, not to mention the playful glint in their eyes. The twins were up to their old ways, but what exactly did they have in store for the couple remained to be seen.
"Hi Hika-Chan, Kao-Chan," Hunny hailed his two friends.
"Hi Hunny, Haruhi," the twins said together.
"Hi guys," Haruhi said smiling. Even after all of this time, the twins talking in unison still got to her and amazed her. She had missed it while she was gone.
"You are probably wondering," Kaoru started.
"Why we wanted to meet with you today," Hikaru finished the sentence.
"You could say that," Hunny smirked.
"Well we came to give you these," Hikaru and Kaoru said at the same time. Hikaru handed Haruhi a yellow envelope. Kaoru gave Hunny a large box. They watched the confused expressions on their friends' faces and said, "Open them."
Haruhi undid the clasp which was holding the envelop closed and removed three pictures. Groaning turning into laughing, and Haruhi said, "I can't believe you had pictures of this. It was something I was always hoping to forget ever happened."
"What is it Haru-Chan?" Hunny asked and when Haruhi forked over the pictures, he found himself laughing. All three pictures were of her dressed up for the Lobelia play. Heavy make-up, horrible wig, and a poufy dress made the costume unforgettable. The first picture was of her singing with the whole stage in the picture, the second was of Beni Bara standing over her when the older woman tried to steal her "first" kiss, and the third was also of her singing, but this time it was a close up. Hunny remembered that day very well and couldn't stop the laughter from escaping.
"Ok, enough with the chuckles. What did they give you? If they gave me pictures, I can only imagine what they brought you in a box that size," Haruhi grumbled as she took the pictures from her boyfriend.
Hunny took the box to the sofa in the living room and untied the bow that was on the box. He was almost afraid to open it and see what the contents were. Removing the lid from the box, he knew exactly what he was staring at. He knew that if he pulled it out of the box, he would find the dress he wore in high school when Tamaki got the bright idea that all of the hosts needed to dress up in ball gowns. Their king thought that they needed an alternate persona of a girl in order to convince Haruhi to stay at Ouran instead of transferring to Lobelia. It was the "freebee campaign" and Haruhi would get a brother and a sister if she stayed in the host club. It was the first time he saw her laugh so much she fell to the floor crying.
"What is it Mitsukuni?" Haruhi inquired from behind him.
Hunny could hear the sniggering coming from the twins. He needed to kill them, but couldn't do it with Haruhi in the room. Growling low, he finally said, "Nothing. It is just the twins' idea of a joke." He really thought that the dress had gone missing, or at least he hoped that it had.
"What is that? Why is it pink?" Haruhi asked examining the contents of the box. Upon closer inspection, she noticed that there was hair inside also, "What the hell is that?"
Face palming, Hunny pulled the pink monstrosity out of the box and held it up for Haruhi to see. He watched her look at the dress and then back at the box where the wig still lay, and he could pinpoint exactly when she comprehended exactly what she was looking at. It was at that moment she started to laugh and once again fell to the ground. "I didn't think it was that funny," Hunny moaned.
Haruhi tried to stop laughing long enough to talk, but it took her a few minutes, "Well I was thinking about that day and how you three started to chase me around the room telling me to call you big sister. All of you were dressed in those silly get ups all because Tamaki convinced you it was needed in order to get me to stay at Ouran. No one ever thought to ask me if I was thinking about leaving, and if I remember correctly, you seemed very happy and excited to be dressed as a princess." She chuckled some more.
"We definitely could have handled that one better," Hunny giggled. Tamaki was always good at playing on people's emotions and knew that he could get the hosts to go along with almost any plan if he gave them good enough reason. Haruhi leaving was a damn good reason in everyone's books, and that included the shadow king himself.
Haruhi walked up to him after he laid the dress back in its box and wrapped her arms around his waist, "Gee you think?" Turning to the twins, she asked, "How did you get all of this stuff?"
"Well Kyoya took pictures of you at the play and we got copies of them from him. Well we actually won them since the boss decided to have a contest," Kaoru explained.
Hikaru was about to start his explanation of the dress when he noticed a dark aura coming from Haruhi. Gulping he moved closer to his twin.
"What contest and when?" Haruhi yelled.
The twins yelped; the third demon had been awakened. They needed to talk fast in order to keep their lives intact. "It was one day in club before the Ouran Fair our first year of high school. Tono wanted to go over to your house, but knew that he would not be welcomed so a contest was started. The first person to be able to get you to invite him over was the winner," Kaoru explained.
Hikaru could tell that Haruhi wanted the whole story as the darkness expanded, so he continued, "Kaoru and I won because we told you that we needed work on a school project that the three of us were doing together. You offered us your apartment. Tono tried to say it wasn't fair because it was a school project, but Kyoya said it was fair because you invited us over and that was the only rule."
Turning to Hunny, Haruhi asked, "Did you know about this?"
Hunny scowled trying to think of the contest the twins were talking about. They had a lot of them in high school, but this one didn't sound familiar. "I know about several contests, but I didn't know about that one," Hunny answered truthfully, grateful that he was not a part of that particular contest.
"Several contests?" Haruhi exclaimed taking a step away from her boyfriend.
Pulling her back into his arms, Hunny said, "I will tell you all about them if you want to know, but yes there were contests and they mainly happened before you and Tama-Chan started to go out."
"Fine," Haruhi grumbled. She wanted to know, but now was not the time. Taking a deep breath and letting it out, she turned to her friends and asked the fiends, "What about the dress?" Her dark aura was slowly disappearing.
"Well we wound up with a lot of the costumes that we used because we designed the majority of them. Somehow we got possession of the dresses from that day also and we thought we would return it to its rightful owner," Hikaru started to laugh.
"I am curious though…" Kaoru smirked and looked at his brother.
Hikaru looked at his brother when Kaoru turned to face him, and together they looked at Hunny again. "We are both curious actually."
"How would the dress fit you today?" They asked together in a menacing tone. Goal one done, give Hunny his dress. It was now time for goal number two, get Hunny in the dress.
Across town Yasu walked out of his apartment with a new baseball hat on his head and sunglasses on his eyes. He had to hide his features as much as possible because he knew that after yesterday's events, men would be looking for him more than they had been. He was too smart to be caught though. Laughing to himself, he crossed the street and started the 20 minute trek that would take him to Haruhi's apartment complex. He wouldn't be able to go up to the door, but there was always a chance he would catch a glimpse of her.
As he was walking on the opposite side of the road as Haruhi's apartment, Yasu thought of the dream he had the night before. It was so real and it felt like Haruhi was really by his side once again. He yearned for that and needed it back in his life, needed her at his side.
Stopping when he was directly across from Haruhi's apartment, he bent down so that he could pretend to tie his shoe and let his eyes wander to the second floor door that belonged to her. He watched as someone went up to the door and instantly his jealously took root, Haruhi was his and only his. Then it registered in his mind, no one answered. Glancing at his watch when he switched to the other shoe, Yasu realized that it was 9:00 am. Ranka and Haruhi should both be home. If Haruhi went to the store, then her father should still be at the apartment, but not one answered the door; which meant that no one was home. Why wasn't anyone home?
Hitting the pavement with the sided of his fist, Yasu straightened up and started running. He needed to get home and think about this; she needed to learn that she wasn't supposed to be anywhere except where he wanted her to be. "Where the hell could she be? Is she with one of those assholes? She has to be whoring herself out to those rich bastards! There is no other explanation!" Yasu was screaming in his head. "Well she will learn soon enough," Yasu sneered out loud and continued his journey home. He had a lot of plans to make and he needed to start implementing something quickly. Yesterday's lesson apparently wasn't enough.
Yasu stormed into his apartment wanting to hurt something, or more precisely six certain people. He was sure that they were the ones that poisoned her mind against him. Taking a deep breath, he sat down at the small desk that occupied a corner of his room and pulled out a piece of paper. He needed to get organized and get his thoughts down. If he got sloppy now, he would get caught and lose her forever. He smiled as he wrote, there were definitely things that he could do to get to her, but first he would make sure that she knew he was there and no one could keep her from him.
List to Win Haruhi
1. Visit her at school. If she sees me around campus, it will show her that I am still a presence in her life.
2. Research those so called friends of her. Surely they have a weakness.
3. Find out where she is staying and see if can possibly to get to her there.
4. Call friends in Yakuza. Need a gun, maybe more than one.
5. Call mother. I need the pictures she has of Haruhi and I before her mind was warped. Laying them in places she is sure to see will help remind her of the good times we had together and win her over.
6. Follow her and find the weak spots in her security team. Security will probably be bumped up after yesterday, but there is always a weak spot to be found. I will find it!
Yasu just started writing down his thoughts and the more he wrote, the better he felt, more secure it seemed to make him. He would win her back either willingly or by force, but she would be his again because he knew deep down that she still loved him as much as he loved her. They would have their dream wedding and no one, especially those rich friends of her, would stand in their way down the aisle.